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Re: [PATCH v2] ln: add the --relative option
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [PATCH v2] ln: add the --relative option |
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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:28:42 -0700 |
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On 02/23/2012 12:50 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> From: Harald Hoyer <address@hidden>
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> With the "--relative --symbolic" options, ln computes the relative
> symbolic link for the user.
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> So, ln works just as cp, but creates relative symbolic links instead
> of copying the file.
In general, I like the idea. I will point out that we now have realpath
that also can compute relative locations to an arbitrary starting point,
so we probably ought to share the code between the two programs rather
than rewriting it.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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